Hitler's Youth was created by Germany's Nazi party ( the National Socialist German workers' Party in 1922. This organization was created for boys 14 -18 to teach them to become loyal followers of the Nazi Party also in the future that they can join the German military. The name Hitler's Youth came from the name Hitlerjugend German in 1926. The children in Hitler's Youth were trained to watch their own families and to tell on them if there was an insults against Hitler. Hitler's Youth increased drasticly in the 1930's, there were even laws passed saying that all the German boys had to join Nazi Youth groups. In the year 1943 boys and girls were learning how to work machine guns. The war dragged on causing a shortage in troops. The Nazis' decided to make over 5,000 boys go to war some younger than 14. At the end of the war most of the boys were either dead or injured (Zapotoczny, Hitler Youth).
Hitler's Youth shows Hitler and a boy
This boy is only 13 years old
Some of the boys and girls in Hitler's Youth were taken away from their home countries and were forced to join the army. In Germany the government passed a new law that stated if none of the parents enroll their children in Hitler's Youth then they would take the children into custody and put them in a state run orphanages. Because of this Hitler's Youth became the largest youth group in the world with 7.3 million children. The Boys were taught how to use bombs and machine guns and by 16 were taught how to ride a motorcycle (Hakim, A History of Us: War, Peace, and all that jazz). On May 1945 the leaders of the Hitler's Youth were arrested and put on trial for corrupting young German minds (Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich).
Works Cited
A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. Joy Hakim, New York: Oxford University Press
Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Antony Beevor Penguin Books 2002
Hitler's Youth (organization)
Hitler's Youth was created by Germany's Nazi party ( the National Socialist German workers' Party in 1922. This organization was created for boys 14 -18 to teach them to become loyal followers of the Nazi Party also in the future that they can join the German military. The name Hitler's Youth came from the name Hitlerjugend German in 1926. The children in Hitler's Youth were trained to watch their own families and to tell on them if there was an insults against Hitler. Hitler's Youth increased drasticly in the 1930's, there were even laws passed saying that all the German boys had to join Nazi Youth groups. In the year 1943 boys and girls were learning how to work machine guns. The war dragged on causing a shortage in troops. The Nazis' decided to make over 5,000 boys go to war some younger than 14. At the end of the war most of the boys were either dead or injured (Zapotoczny, Hitler Youth).
Some of the boys and girls in Hitler's Youth were taken away from their home countries and were forced to join the army. In Germany the government passed a new law that stated if none of the parents enroll their children in Hitler's Youth then they would take the children into custody and put them in a state run orphanages. Because of this Hitler's Youth became the largest youth group in the world with 7.3 million children. The Boys were taught how to use bombs and machine guns and by 16 were taught how to ride a motorcycle (Hakim, A History of Us: War, Peace, and all that jazz). On May 1945 the leaders of the Hitler's Youth were arrested and put on trial for corrupting young German minds (Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich).
Works Cited
A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. Joy Hakim, New York: Oxford University Press
Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Antony Beevor Penguin Books 2002
"Hitler's Youth shows Hitler and a boy" http://www.dipity.com/ideatechr/World-War-II-Prelude-to-1942/
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William Shirer, Simon & Schuster 1960
The Holocaust Historical Society
Zapotoczny, Jr., Walter S. "Hitler Youth." World Book Student. World Book, 2012. Web. 5 Sept. 2012.